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Extended Trailer for Wilber Pan and Xu Lu’s Be With You

Don’t get fooled by the above photo. This is a straight-up melo drama. If wuxia, period, and modern rom-coms don’t fit your bill, here’s a melo for those itching to cry and pull out their hair this January. SAY WHAT? Yep. No breathing room at all. Be With You (不得不爱) is adapted from the novel Every Step Is Wrong, written by Lan Bai Se, the same author behind Loving Never Forgetting with Jerry Yan and Tong Li Ya. Wilber Pan and Xu Lu play our OTP and they are not nice people. *prays to my land lord that our female lead DOES actually inflict damage and pain*

What? EVIL?

Yea…

I….am. =P

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The original translation I did last year of the novel: Our female lead, Lin Wei Ling (Xu Lu), had a crushing childhood: she lost her mother very young and lives with her father in a big, empty house, with servants. She usually dresses like a boy just to play with the other boys in her neighborhood. But after they learn of her gender – they no longer allow her into their group. Even though she’s treated like a pearl in her father’s hand, he works days and nights. Then one day, after waiting endlessly for him to show up at the parents’ meeting, she fumes and heads to his company. Just seconds before entering the revolving door, a thud pulls her attention back. Lying bloody on the hood of her family’s car is a man all too familiar. Blood pools and encircles around him, his eyes never leaving her face, as if staring straight into her innocent soul.

The tragedy takes away her father and her ability to talk. She’s left to be taken care by her father’s “friend”. He lives with his wife, a woman with a beautiful smile, and their young son, Hu Qian Yu (Wilber Pan). He torments her, not knowing that she’s actually a girl (WHAT??!!). On the day of her birthday, he hears her crying and singing the happy birthday song. Angry that she lied, he orders his minions to stomp on the poor girl’s cake; the cake that she had to break her piggy bank to buy (kids can be so cruel).

The day he finds out that she’s a girl – such a horrible scene – is when he and his friends beat her up at the tennis court and strips her down to…nothing. That is when she cries, her body shrinking numbly to hide the horror and the embarrassment. He feels bad but he’s more afraid of being found out by his parents so he threatens her not to tell his mother.

When we meet her again, she has spent seven years in America, where she met good friend Yao Yao (Rachel Mao) and her step brother, Yao Jun Mo (Denny Huang) and is on her flight back to China. We get to see her inner workings as an adult. One of her professors once said, the strongest person is the one with beauty, intelligence, and ambition. Wei Ling does not believe that – the strongest person is the one with beauty, intelligence, and lacks a heart.

She returns to take back what is rightfully hers.

Xu Lu.

Lol. Behind-the-scene, Wilber is the one actually crying! XD

YES! Splash water at him! That jerk!

A lonely beauty.

Wilber Pan.

WHO’S THE GIRL?!

I hope he didn’t do what I think he did…

Rachel Mao Xiao Tong. She rocks all the hairstyles. 😉 The heroine’s best friend and the frenemy CEO’s illegitimate daughter (Denny’s half sister). She’s the total opposite from our heroine – bright and sunny, easy to persuade and pacify.

Wilber with his cute-as-a-pie assistant, played by Derek Zhang Xuan Rui.

Second male lead, Denny Huang.

Rounding out the bromance is Zhang Jun Ning (on far right).

Posters.

Extended Trailer:

Oh boy, this looks crazy and dramatic. Tell me some of you guys will watch this. Lol. So then I can save myself from hair therapy session. =D

Directed and co-written by Catherine Tsang (Off Pedder, Best Selling Secrets) with two other writers, melo drama Be With You has 44 episodes and premieres on January 2nd.

15 thoughts on “Extended Trailer for Wilber Pan and Xu Lu’s Be With You”

Xu Lu’s character seems to be a bit of an emotional ass. She (in the trailer at least) seems to play with both Wilber and the Yao bro. Tbh. Wilber’s character also seems like a bit of an ass. Feel the most sympathetic towards the Yao siblings (T.T Rachel…). Definitely NOT going to watch. WAAAAY to melo and ridiculous and “gou xie” for me.

15 thoughts on “Extended Trailer for Wilber Pan and Xu Lu’s Be With You”

I still haven’t gotten around to finishing the last Wilbur drama I started, Endless Love (not because it wasn’t good, I just got too busy with other stuff and haven’t gotten back to it), but I might tune in for this one if it gets subbed. I like Wilbur a lot so I’ll give this a shot.

15 thoughts on “Extended Trailer for Wilber Pan and Xu Lu’s Be With You”

I’m watching it since I start to have soft spot for Xu Lu after I saw her in Tribes and Empires trailer and stills and this is her 1st drama in 2017. My latest is ep 7 but I peeked at later eps and so far I like it enough, rate it 8/10 for now. The plot is, as I expected, your usual soap-revenge makjang melo. But the romance is very good, lots of hot and heart-tugging scenes with Xu Lu and the guys, they show us early how the 4 guys each interacts with the female lead. The “antiheroine” female lead is also a refreshing touch, I like the suspense of her “double agent” life.

15 thoughts on “Extended Trailer for Wilber Pan and Xu Lu’s Be With You”

Subbed will be a nice bonus, but as long as its not VIP only-restricted anymore, it’ll has more ppl to check it. Her antiheroine char. also brings a fresh take in “harem” genre (she’s bit manipulative towards the guys). And Xu Lu acts good, I may really end up become her fan even before her most-awaited dramas come (Tribes, Candle in the Tomb The Weasel Grave with famous director Guan Hu and Ethan Ruan’s series comeback after years! also car-racing drama Sonic Youth, something rare in C Drama).

15 thoughts on “Extended Trailer for Wilber Pan and Xu Lu’s Be With You”

I initially just intrigued with her since Tribes is still one of my most fav novel and Su Yu Ning is my most beloved female char. there and I feel the production team has found a very suitable actress for her based on trailer and stills. But after I get to finally watch her acting in Be With You, I begin to like her for who she is, not only for her Su Yu Ning.

And yeah about Tribes, originally Hunan wanted to air it Jan 2017, but but the post-production taking longer than expected, so General air 1st. The latest rumors are ranging between Apr-Sep.

It’s clear already from trailer they change many things from the novel. But what I’m most curious about is, Mu Yun Sheng-Su Yu Ning’s marriage. The original novel series stopped without them married, so I’m curious on how the adaptation will develop the pair. Whether they intend to make it a triangle. An unruly & tough general’s son pining over a palace trainee girl who has to marry the shunned future Emperor. And how the married couple build their affections over time even though both loved another. Sounds exciting.

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15 thoughts on “Extended Trailer for Wilber Pan and Xu Lu’s Be With You”

I have always liked Xu Lu and the promotions for Tribes prove a caliber above an average period drama, so I was in the day the first trailer showcased. Never read the novel but heard of the complicated characters and relationships. I adore Shawn Dou and Huang Xuan so really CANNOT WAIT FOR THE ANGST! Weee!

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15 thoughts on “Extended Trailer for Wilber Pan and Xu Lu’s Be With You”

Actually, there was no complicated relationships in the novel. Each of the regular chars. have their own love interests, even the prophesied future Queen never marry the future Emperor. Well it’s to be expected since it isn’t a thick book and even unfinished. Most of the chars. the drama promoted as regulars, like Emperor-Queen and their children, Queen’s jealous niece etc, either died soon in the book or only appeared a little bit. That’s why I was surprised they make a 80 eps out of it LOL. The easiest spotted change is the wedding in trailer. Not only MY Sheng-SY Ning actually married, but we can see all the royalties are still alive as the guests, even the lamenting 2nd Prince Mu Yun Lu.

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15 thoughts on “Extended Trailer for Wilber Pan and Xu Lu’s Be With You”

15 thoughts on “Extended Trailer for Wilber Pan and Xu Lu’s Be With You”

Finished all 1st half 22 eps now. Gotta say it’s not exactly “I hate you then I love you leads”. I don’t think the male lead ever hate the female lead. He clearly loves and protects her from the beginning til the end (albeit possessively LOL), he only has to behave otherwise to “deceive” his mom. The female lead, her love for him initially wasn’t as strong as him to her (to enhance the harem theme and her manpulative side), and later she even tries to hate him, but I don’t think she truly hates him too.